Pope Francis canceling the Bible and proposing a new holy book for worshipers in the Catholic Church is a hoax. There is no truth to a report that the Pontifex was shaking up years of religious tradition for Catholic followers by disposing of the Bible and replacing it with a new holy book. Pope Francis has been the subject of many fake news, tweets, photographs and memes in the past.

Where did this fake news originate? ThereIsNews.com published the fake news article on April 2, 2018, reporting that Pope Francis would be canceling the Bible with the idea that there would be an new holy book for Catholic worshippers to follow. You can read the fake news below.

Pope Francis has surprised the world today by announcing that The Bible is totally outdated and needs a radical change, so The Bible is officially canceled and it’s announced a meeting between the highest personalities of the church where it will be decided the book that will replace it, its name and its content. Some names are already being considered and the one that has more strength is “Biblia 2000”.

“We can not keep trying to talk our public in a totally new world with a book that has thousands years. We are losing followers and we have to go a step further in the search for the modernization of the church. to rewrite the word of God, even if it is only the Old Testament, in which there are certain passages that it is better not to repeat. ”

However, there is no truth to the above story. What is the problem with the story to make it false? Of course, there is no legitimate news coverage of the Pontifex canceling the Bible. Rather, the above story is capitalizing off of the real news that Pope Francis had denied one of the core tenets of Catholicism that hell exists. That rumor, was either embellished or misreported, according to Snopes.

Here are some examples of people sharing the fake news on social media.

Finally, and most importantly, ThereIsNews.com carries the following disclaimer:

The site “There is news” (http://thereisnews.es) (hereinafter referred to as TIN) is a humor site whose purpose is entertainment.

The content of TIN is fiction and does not correspond to reality.

All references, names, brands or institutions that appear on the site are used as contextual elements, as in any novel or fiction account.

Recently, Pope Francis criticized Christians who emphasize opposition to abortion above social causes such as poverty and migration, in his latest effort to readjust the priorities of Catholic moral teaching from what he has characterized as an overemphasis on sexual and medical ethics
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